Why do we love fast food? Well, it’s kind of in the name isn’t it. It’s quick to make, easy to acquire and available everywhere. Plus drive-throughs mean you don’t even have to trouble yourself with parking your car and walking into the restaurant. Unless of course you’re in an expensive hypercar such as the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport… then maybe you ought to skip the drive-through.
Although modern hypercars are ridiculously easy to drive, their girth doesn’t always make for an easy navigational experience in tight areas; as Mat Watson from Carwow learnt the hard way here.
Yearning for some local cuisine, he must have been fooled by the word “French” in French fries during a review of the Chiron and made a beeline for the drive-through at a nearby McDonalds to acquire some.
Understandably, Mat lost a few strands of hair and probably a few years of his life inching the Chiron through the tight confines of the local McDonald’s drive-through. You see, kerbing the wheels on your Perodua Myvi isn’t going to hurt anything except perhaps your ego. Kerbing the wheels on the Chiron might put the next few generations of your family in debt.
However, Watson had help in avoiding the kerbs from none other than Bugatti test driver and former Le Mans winner Andy Wallace. Quite a stark difference in pace from his time taking the Chiron Super Sport 300 to a world record top speed of 490.484 kph in 2019, Wallace was outside the road-going Chiron guiding it around the kerbs.
Of the three windows Watson had to stop at (order, payment and food collection), he needed to open the door and pop half his body out at the first two. Hardly the sort of classy behaviour one expects from the owner of such a fine machine.
Nonetheless, by the time Watson reaches the third window he’s clearly mastered the width of the Chiron and gets it parked as close as possible to the kerbs. Having said that, you can see the number of close calls he had with the kerbs from the video and screenshots posted in this piece.
He finally gets his hands on a packet of small French fries and a contented Watson rockets his way home through Germany’s autobahn, effortlessly clicking past the 300kph mark on the way.
We strongly suggest taking a Myvi to the drive-through the next time you’re craving some McDonald’s Watson.
Keyword: Ironically, getting fast food in your Bugatti Chiron isn’t all that fast of an affair